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history of Brazil

Franco appointed as finance minister Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who put forth the
Real Plan, a financial program partly inspired by a successful Argentine plan. The program stopped the government from periodically raising prices (a practice known as indexing inflation), introduced a new currency (the real) and an exchange rate that was partially linked to that of the U.S. dollar, and called for...

...inflation and led to public acceptance of its inevitability. As a result, Brazil’s anti-inflation programs were only fleetingly successful until the mid-1990s, when the government initiated the
Real Plan (Plano Real), a program that strictly limited government spending, introduced a new currency, and made other fiscal reforms.